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Paper Radio: Poems
In her first book, Damian Rogers tracks the transformative moment, where emotion and deep memory seek form through sound and image. Her poems tune into a stream of cosmic chatter, channeling voices that tell their stories slant, from a chaste nineteenth century utopian mystic to a chorus of crones to the radical characters of Detroit’s sixties-era radical underground. Exam...more
Paperback, 120 pages
Published
October 1st 2009
by ECW Press
(first published 2009)
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This is one of those books you can read on and on, I think. :o)
I was hooked right from the first poem (Redbird - I think it was the use of French that made me smile. Also, it is kind of like a poetic version of one of my favourite Salvador Dali paintings (The Hallucinogenic Toreador), except that for Damian Rogers the inspiration was a matchbox, not a pencil box.)
I read the poems one after the other, getting some, not getting others, but then it occured to me that a book of poems is to be read...more
I was hooked right from the first poem (Redbird - I think it was the use of French that made me smile. Also, it is kind of like a poetic version of one of my favourite Salvador Dali paintings (The Hallucinogenic Toreador), except that for Damian Rogers the inspiration was a matchbox, not a pencil box.)
I read the poems one after the other, getting some, not getting others, but then it occured to me that a book of poems is to be read...more
Dec 05, 2009
rabbitprincess
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Recommends it for:
Blue Rodeo fans who like the song "Blue House"
Recommended to rabbitprincess by:
Greg Keelor
A very interesting collection. I'm not really that qualified to give a review of a poetry collection, at least when it comes to discussing all the technical aspects that make the poems great and all the imagery and stuff. All I know is what I like, and I do like a lot. Of these poems, my favourites are the ones where Damian tells a definite story, like "Autobiography" or "Better Living Through Industry". I also liked "Biography". The appearance of a red bird throughout the book was also a clever...more
I really liked this collection of poems. There was excellent use of repetition of images, strands of myth and pop culture and an overall darkness to the collection that I appreciated.
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